CHAPTER 5
DISCOVERING PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING
发现心理测试
Early in my kids’ lives, I’d had them tested by abrilliant psychologist named Sue Quinlan. Her assessments proved spot-on andprovided a great road map for how they would develop over the years. Becausethat testing process had been so successful, I worked with her and others totry to identify the best tests for determining what the people I worked withwere like. In 2006, I took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessmentfor the first time and found its description of my preferences to be remarkablyaccurate.
Many of the differences it described, such as thosebetween “intuiting people,” who tend to focus on big-picture concepts, and“sensing people,” who pay more attention to specific facts and details, werehighly relevant to the conflicts and disagreements we were having atBridgewater. I began to look for other tests that could help us deepen ourunderstanding of each other. This was slow going at first, largely because mostof the psychologists I met were surprisinglysqueamishabout exploring differences. Buteventually I found a few great people, especially a psychologist named BobEichinger, who pointed me to a number of other very useful tests.
In early 2008, I had most of Bridgewater’s managerstake the Myers-Briggs assessment. The results astounded me. I couldn’t believethat some of them actually thought in the ways the test described, yet when Iasked them to rate how well it described them on a scale of one to five, morethan 80 percent of them gave it a four or five.
译文：
早在我孩童时期，我就被当时一个非常著名的心理学家-苏奎因兰做过大量测试，她的评价被证实非常准求，并为人们后来的发展提供了一条路线图。因为那个测试过程已经非常成功了，所以我为奎因工作，并试着探明和我一起工作的人都是怎样的。2006年，我第一次接受了迈尔斯布里格斯性格评估，发现关于我的种种偏爱的描述出奇的准确。
和描述不符的地方，比如诸如“靠直觉感知他人”倾向于聚焦全局概念，“感知人” 更多关注特定细节与事实，和我们在桥水基金的冲突与差异有着高度的相关性。我开始关注其他的测试能帮助我们深度理解彼此。一开始很缓慢，很大程度上是因为我遇到的大多数心理学家都非常诧异探讨这些差异性。但最终我发现了少数几个伟大大人，尤其是一个名叫鲍勃爱琦格的心理学家，他指给我一些非常有用的测试。
2008年早期，我让巨大多数桥水的经理人都去做了迈尔斯布里格斯性格评估。结果让我大吃一惊。我不能相信有些家伙像测试描述的那样的思维方式，但当我要求他们就评估描述的准确性从1-5打分，超过80%给了4-5.
读后感：
国外人对于各种性格测试或者心理学的研究很积极的配合，或者愿意参加测试，很多公司也很看重这些测试的结果，而且是近乎迷信，尽管心理学或者西方的这些神秘术并没有得到科学的验证。
不否认有其科学的一面，但 更多是在做小范围的测试，样本数太小，所以结论大多经不起长时间的考验。
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